Re: System Freezes During Hard Drive Error Checking

Thanks for your thoughts.

Yes, I'm running it with automatically fix errors turned on.

I fully expect chkdsk to identify bad sectors and mark them as unusable,
then move on. What's got me stumped it that it's NOT doing that. The system
just freezes at about the same point during the free space part of the scan
(step 5 of 5). That really doesn't tell me what's going on.

If that tells me, as you say, that "several clusters are messed up or at
least the File System thinks they are," how would I fix that? Chkdsk won't
more beyond that point!

As for taking advantage of the warranty, (a) I like to have some idea what
the problem is before I compain, and, related, (b) I can't really afford to
be without the machine for a long time, so if I can prove that is it the
drive (as opposed to the controller on the motherboard overheating or
something like that), then maybe I can convince a repair place to just swap
the drive instead of leaving or sending the whole machine someone for days or
weeks.

So, can you or anyone else out there elaborate on what the system looking up
during stage 5 might mean?

Since this is the free space scan part of the check, what has the file
system got to do with anything?

On, one more question: Does dskchk attempt to write to every sector, or just
read from each one? I'm trying to figure out why it passed the surface scan
in the BIOS, the surface scan in PC Doctor, and the surface scan in the
Hitachi drive diagnostic utility, but it dies during the Dskchk? Does this
point to a file system thing then? And if so, how to fix it?

.

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